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We know of so many people who are facing impossible situations and problems and they are helpless. They do not know what to do or whom to ask.
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Recently I had a series of losses of my personal belongings. I lost a golden symbol of mother I had, then someone stole my audio speaker, and I nearly lost my wallet. On the 5th of December, one man made an observation about me: he said “your eyes are moving too fast. Your breathing is too shallow. You are likely to attract accidents 😱in such a state. You have to learn to breath deeply”. This made me think. The very next day I had a bad injury after which I will require surgery. For the last 4 days, I’ve been experimenting with some light pranayama — 20 repetitions of Anulom Vilom in the morning and evening. I’ve heard that pranayama can be dangerous unless it is practiced carefully. Can you explain why it is said that pranayama can be dangerous, as well as what is the best way to safely learn it? If you have any comments about my experience narrated at the beginning of this message, I’d like to hear them.
The losses of this kind are due to a lack of concentration, an inattention or unconsciousness in certain aspects of nature. The solution is to
Do we exist simultaneously in both the physical body and the subtle physical body? And are there additional realms where we exist simultaneously? How to understand this🧐?
Yes we exist at multiple levels simultaneously. However we are aware only of the level with which the ego is identified at a given moment.
What is the use of death and suffering😟?
In brief these events challenge us and thereby pushing us beyond the routine round of life. By doing so they awaken us. Death is the
I read two texts from the Mother’s writings regarding human love💗. (1) One was from CWM Vol 12 under the topic “The Four Austerities and The Four Liberations.”From “For one who has known love for the Divine, all other forms of love are obscure and too mixed with pettiness and egoism and darkness;” ….. to……”This concentration will culminate in an integral identification and will be instrumental to the supramental realisation upon earth.”
In both these the Mother is revealing to us the different stages of love. The love that is centred around the body and the vital,
How can one define God😇?
Well we cannot limit God to any definitions, formula or any dogma. The mind tries to limit things by defining them. But God is the
I had a dream that I lost my slippers and my infant son was taking a dip in pool 🌊so I thought I will go and find my sleepers and there was a lingering feeling that I lost my slippers. Can you please explain.
Losing slippers generally indicates shedding off of some load of the inconscient. The infant is the…
Can you please explain about non-violence theory which was propagated by M.K. Gandhi,? I cannot relate to it and find it very outdated, well here I am not saying to fight with people without reason but what about self-defense or protecting the weak🤷♂️?
The gospel of non-violence as propounded by Gandhi ji is more of a rigid mental doctrine based on certain moral ideas of right and wrong.
You rightly speak about the necessity of women being given a fair chance and freedom in the modern world but in emphasizing this positive aspect don’t we also lose grip on reality and mask ourselves with glosses about the dark, chaotic, chthonic and subtle manipulative aspects of female nature😡. Young women of today have such cunning will to power by guilt tripping even boys with narratives parallel to Christian original sin about masculinity. Even the so called religious women are only religious in so far as it aggrandises them by saying how women are forms of the devi. many of them use both feminist narratives and also traditional narratives very conveniently as it suits them. I am asking this in the light of the recent suicide case that’s on news.
We have to see this not only cross sectionally but also longitudinally as they have developed and evolved over milleniums. Men being endowed with brute
Alok da, how to develop the talent and cognitive skills to deal with such multifaceted subjects like Sri Aurobindo did. I mean it kind of makes me marvel how between different volumes of works on philosophy, poetry, world history, philology, yoga etc.. his metamorphosises as if he’s a master at each one of them. He easily changes even the writing style be it in poetry and prose,the style of his revolutionary writings like bandemataram, karmayogin is quite different from the life divine, and also in poetry if we compare Ilion and Savitri etc..Is it a possible for seekers in general to have such polymath like talent or is it better to stick to one thing or is it just inborn and we can’t train ourselves🤔
Sri Aurobindo attributed the development of certain faculties especially of inspiration, intuition, flow of poetry, etc to the Yoga. As regards Yoga itself he attributed
Can you please explain the importance of ‘Ek Nishtha’ or Sincerity🙂?
Ek nishtha or sincerity is like the lamp that shows us things exactly as they are without colouring or covering them with justifications. This is
Earlier I enjoyed learning and wanted to do higher studies. But now I’m been given the opportunity, I don’t feel the enthusiasm and excitement to learn and rather facing reading-and-writing-blocks most of the time..rendering to decreased efficiency and effectiveness of learning, decreased performance, feeling less creative and joyous to study and more or less…a mental and physical burnout and distressed out of not being able to meet the targets set by academicians at college for students😥
It often happens that as a child we get interested in a subject or develop an area of interest. But as we grow towards adulthood
Is purification and transformation of nature are same things🤔?
Purification means removing the coverings and coatings of ignorance so that one may find the true soul hidden inside. It is like extracting the grain
Is there a particular method suggested by The Mother for meditation🧘♂️?
One of the methods that the Mother recommends is ‘dynamic meditation’. Here, one concentrates in the centre of the chest on the Divine Presence (with
Since we have human life today, can we attain Bhagavat (divine realization) by chanting God’s name day and night? And if so, will we be freed from the cycle of birth and death? After attaining Bhagavat, we will not return to this mortal world, right🙃?
Chanting God’s name day and night can indeed lead to liberation. However, continuous remembrance or chanting is not possible without God’s grace. And even after
I have cold and cough. I want to know what’s the deeper reason behind these diseases? Are they due to some disharmony in the inner being😥?
If it is frequent then it indicates possibly low immune resistance. This in itself could be due to some kind of stress which is quite
Why is Shri Krishna referred to as the Purna (पूर्ण) Avatar🦚?
Because he is supposed to embody all the 16 divine qualities. The other distinction is that a Purna Avatar is the full divine manifestation while
What is more worse🙄, Sexual adultery or Emotional Adultery?
It depends upon the perspective. If we mean by sexual adultery having physical relation without emotional involvement then it is obviously worse because it means
People around me eat non-vegetarian food, and when I choose to eat vegetarian, they mock it, calling it “grass” and not considering it real food. Why is it that in India, people are increasingly shifting towards non-vegetarian diets, while globally, many are embracing veganism🤷♂️?
The general worldwide trend is towards vegetarianism. But there are always people who like to appear cool and need social approval. They generally do things